AT&T is offering users another flavor of VPN that the carrier says is more economical than traditional frame relay networks and typically more economical than customer premises equipment-based IP VPNs ...

An independent maker of IP service delivery switches has added Multi-protocol Label Switching capability to its flagship platform. The move by CoSine Communications, announced last week, is designed ...

After years of criticizing a technology known as multiprotocol label switching, the long-distance carrier succumbs to market pressure and will offer MPLS virtual private networks. Marguerite Reardon ...

The service, appropriately titled AT&T Network Based IP VPN, extends IP VPN services over the firm's Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. It was expected to be available to channel partners ...

There are many definitions of an IP VPN, though many people believe their definition to be the only one. All that can really be taken for granted with the word “VPN” is that the WAN service keeps your ...

Verizon this week said it expanded the availability of its Ethernet access services in the U.S., Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and is offering it as an access option for its Private IP MPLS VPN ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Covad Communications Company, a leading national provider of voice and data communications, today announced the nationwide availability of Covad MPLS VPN services, ...

WAYNE, N.J. — Alcatel is taking the next step in making Internet protocol services more friendly for carrier-class networks by announcing support Wednesday (May 28) for IP virtual private networking ...

Plans to deploy virtual private networks using a new technology have sparked recent controversy, with the debate illustrating the need for technology managers to tune in to different ways carriers ...

Broadview Networks, a business communications service provider, has selected and deployed VPN Explorer, an IP/MPLS VPN routing analysis solution from Packet Design, Inc. Company officials said that ...

We're in the process of switching to a new MPLS provider. With our old provider, we used point-to-point IP addresses between our CE and the PE in the RFC 1918 range. We also used only BGP AS numbers ...

Enterprises will be hoping that two warring standards bodies can next week sort out a problem with the widely used MPLS protocol that threatens to cause widespread disruption in companies' wide area ...